Description

The MBTI, short for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, draws up 16 types that each of us can belong to, according to our preferred functions.

For Skeptics

Many dismiss MBTI with unsubstantiated claims. However MBTI and Jungian theories are the most useful tools for seeing how people construct and perceive their world. Check here for more.

The MBTI sorts for type and each type has a specific function order. Additionally, every type uses all four types of functions, Intuition, Sensing, Thinking, and Feeling. Your type however determines the order and attitude of these functions.

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Other Personality Tests

The Enneagram categorises human personality into nine types. It's the work of Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo. While MBTI measures the how we perceive our world and make decisions, Enneagram describes why we do what we do, relating to our innermost motivations, fears and desires. In combination with MBTI enneagram is a potent tool for understanding yourself and others. Enneagram's subreddit is here /r/enneagram.

Socionics was developed primarily by the Lithuanian researcher Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, an economist, sociologist, psychologist. Socionics is quite similar to MBTI but has some slightly difference nuances. It adds focus to intertype relations and analysis of functions. MBTI and Socionics are both derived from Carl Jung, but are slightly different in their presentation.

Socionics types are the same to their MBTI counterparts. However, there is a discrepancy with introverts. If you are for example an INTJ in MBTI, you will be an INTp in socionics.

Here is a video of me answering some questions from an /r/INTP thread, this one in particular. There were not many questions in that thread to be answered and I forgot the childhood one, but if you guys, or the thread gets more questions, want me to make another one, provided enough questions, then I will make another. I was thinking it would pick up more people here, and I could maybe learn about other types from other non-intp people. As for my motivation, I just assumed that the people who would watch this video wouldn't care too much that my sentences were choppy.

This makes me think that we should do a video AMA series. We can have someone of each type answer whatever questions are posted in their thread in a YouTube video. That'll also give insight into each type's general mannerisms as compared to just reading text.